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My first week at Uni seems to be going well. We aren’t really doing much as it’s enrolment and Freshers stuff this week. Next Monday lectures start in earnest.

We had a bit of a surprise on Tuesday though. After being spoken to about module choices - sadly we don’t find out until next week if language electives fit into the timetable so doing Japanese is still not decided upon - we were challenged to go out and grab some shots in the next 20 minutes on campus. Eeek taking photographs on day two!

We were each given a word and told to take as many shots as we desired then narrow that down to one to submit for an exhibition on Friday afternoon. At the display all of the course (including 2nd and 3rd years) would be present and all the lecturers.

*wobbly knees moment*

I had ‘translucent’ as my word. After getting over the shock I actually took about 30 shots and narrowing it down was definitely that hardest part. We’ll see what the audience think on Friday…

Yesterday was involved queuing for an NUS card (which now costs £10; wow it used to be free). They take your photo digitally now and you have a number like a credit card number on your card - so the days of forging a copy of a card for your mate on photoshop are over. I then exercised my student spending power in Boxfresh (lovely autumn collection this year boys and girls) and Superdry (so many funky Japanese tops) in Covent Garden.

I’ve met a really nice girl in my tutor group called Emma. She is a mature student too and we are very alike in our likes, temper and photographic leanings. I’m really glad as I was scared before the start of term that everyone would be 18 and think me positively ancient as I’m over 30. In fact there are three other mature students in my tutor group and one of the guys (there are only two of us girls) is 35 so I’m not the oldest! Talking of tutors we got them appointed totally at random and I prayed that I got the lovely Andre who interviewed me. Anyone who had such stylish glasses as he must be a nice person! Being a B in the alphabet was on my side and I got Andre as my personal tutor. Phew, having someone you don’t like as a personal tutor for the next three years would be very hard. He’s lovely. He’s Swedish-German with kind lively eyes and a soft voice - very reassuring! In fact our lecturers are a very cosmopolitan lot with 4 Scandinavians, one American and one Japanese lady amongst them.

Last night I went to dinner with my photographic mentor Caz. She is such a lovely funny lady and she brought me a spare manual 35mm film body for me to borrow. The secondhand one I bought from eBay doesn’t have a cable release socket. That was duly added to my growing camera equipment pile: three medium format cameras, two 35mm film SLRs, one 35mm digital SLR and one compact digital. I definitely need a bigger cupboard.

Today, we are off to an exhibtion - but that doesn’t start until 11.00. Lovely.

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